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Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas.

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Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.

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The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do.

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Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

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Now, you receive all your ideas; therefore you receive your wish, you wish therefore necessarily. The word "liberty" does not therefore belong in any way to your will....The will, therefore, is not a faculty that one can call free. A free will is an expression absolutely void of sense, and what the scholastics have called will of indifference, that is to say willing without cause, is a chimera unworthy of being combated.

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Let us read, and let us dance — these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.

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Where some states possess an army, the Prussian Army possesses a state.

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had no need of a guide to learn ignorance

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Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them.

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He who seeks truth should be of no country.

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Monsieur l'abbé, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write.

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It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode.

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But in this country it is necessary, now and then, to put one admiral to death in order to inspire the others to fight.

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Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

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To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature.

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I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

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Earth is an insane asylum, to which the other planets deport their lunatics.

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